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It is fair that IPA hop aromas do diminish over time, it really depends on the beer how that affects its quality. But if you don’t expose them to light they def
by eyelidlessness 3y ago
It is fair that IPA hop aromas do diminish over time, it really depends on the beer how that affects its quality. But if you don’t expose them to light they definitely don’t get skunky, at any temperature over many years.
- phillc73 3y agoWhich was of course the whole point of India Pale Ales. Chuck a load of hops in the beer, preserve it on a boat ride to India. Probably the hops aroma did diminish, but the beer didn’t go off.
- eyelidlessness 3y agoAnd of course those beers were already way less hoppy. They weren’t for beer snobs, they were for colonizing.